Economic Crime Project Manager – 6-month Secondment/FTC

Join us as an Economic Crime Project Manager – a 6‑month secondment / fixed‑term contract within Tesco Bank. In this role you will shape the future of banking by managing a portfolio of customers requiring KYC reviews, ensuring all regulatory and compliance obligations are met while coordinating multiple related activities and workstreams.

Key responsibilities

• Track progress, follow up with stakeholders and drive completion of key actions.
• Maintain a robust control environment while supporting project management activities.
• Review documentation for accuracy and compliance and provide regular updates to stakeholders.
• Support change management, mitigate risks and contribute to timely delivery of KYC and remediation objectives.

Required skills

• Significant experience in project and/or programme management, with responsibility for coordinating complex workstreams and delivering against key milestones.
• Proven experience leading or managing remediation projects, preferably within KYC, AML, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), or regulatory compliance environments.
• Considerable stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, engage, and collaborate effectively across multiple business functions and seniority levels.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with a proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes within tight deadlines.
• Significant AML/KYC experience at a leadership, ownership, or subject‑matter‑expert level, with a considerable understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Experience operating within a robust controls and governance framework, including risk management, oversight, documentation review, and compliance monitoring.

Location

This role can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support the Risk Function in delivering its objective of safeguarding the bank’s financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up‑to‑date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third‑party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and accelerate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a group of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, while balancing short and long‑term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Show leadership behaviours that create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, act as a subject‑matter expert within your discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, and identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists while providing information that affects long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation’s functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Values

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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